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BOOSTING CALORIES AND PROTEIN
If you are having trouble eating enough to maintain your weight, try adding the following high fat foods to your diet to increase your calorie intake.
Fats and oils such as butter, margarine, mayonnaise, and gravies, have a large number of calories in only a small serving. Add these to other foods to improve calorie intake. For example, use extra margarine on bread, extra mayonnaise in tuna salad, gravies on meats, sour cream on potatoes, cream sauce on vegetables.
Butter your toast when it is hot-more butter is used when it melts into it.
Use mayonnaise in place of salad dressing. Mayonnaise has more calories.
Boost calories with high carbohydrate foods such as sugar, jam, honey, syrup, and marmalade. These are easy to keep on hand and require little or no preparation and all add calories.
Keep snack foods available such as cookies, cakes, pies, nuts, candy and dried fruit.
Drink liquids with extra calories such as milkshakes, eggnogs, high protein drinks instead of water, tea, diet soda, and coffee.
Try cooking with heavy cream instead of milk.
Add whipped cream or frosting to desserts.
Enjoy half-and-half on your breakfast cereal.
Use sour cream as a dip for vegetables. Try sour cream on French fries.
Add avocado slices or guacamole to sandwiches or salads.
Top breads, pancakes, and waffles with extra margarine, jams, cream cheese, dried fruits, nuts, and syrups.
Prepare vegetables au gratin, buttered, or creamed.
Stuff fruits and vegetables with cottage cheese or ricotta cheese.
Blend or whip ice cream or cream with fruit canned in syrup.
Sweeten fruit with sugar or honey.
Substitute cream for milk in any recipe.
Coffee creamer powders add calories without adding volume. These can be added to hot cocoa, milkshakes, hot cereals, gravy and soups for additional calories.
Serve frosting on a graham cracker
Try to eat a good breakfast. Your appetite is likely to be best in the morning
Keep easy to prepare foods on hand, such as frozen dinners, canned foods and eggs.
Try small frequent meals. Six or more small meals may be easier to tolerate than three large meals. Build up gradually, adding a new food each day.
Prepare meals ahead. Fix many small portions of your favorite foods high in protein and calories and store them in the refrigerator or freezer, ready to serve.
Protein foods provide amino acids for your body to build, maintain, and repair cells and muscle tissue, heal wounds, and support the immune system. The best protein sources are in the milk group (includes yogurt and cheese) and the meat group (includes eggs, nuts and beans). The following are suggestions to further increase your protein and calorie intake.
Top your waffle or pancakes with a generous scoop of ice cream.
Prepare canned soups with milk instead of water.
Add chopped meat, cheese, or ham to scrambled eggs, omelets, salads, and soups.
Serve peanut butter with an apple, celery, banana, pear, vanilla wafers or graham crackers.
Spread peanut butter on crackers, bread, French toast, and waffles
Stir powdered milk into soups, sauces, egg dishes, and casseroles.
Breaded and fried meats, fish or poultry contain more calories than broiled or roasted meats.
Add nonfat dry milk to foods for added calories and protein, such as mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, meatballs, cream soups, cream sauces, gravies, puddings, custards, milkshakes, scrambled eggs, meatloaf, casseroles, hot and cold cereals, and whole milk (see fortified milk recipe).
Instant cocoa packets, canned soups and pudding mixes can be made with whole milk, half and half or evaporated milk instead of water.
Finely chopped hard-cooked egg white can very effectively be blended into a sauce or gravy without being noticed. Do not eat raw eggs.
Serve deviled eggs.
Add hard boiled eggs or egg substitute to tuna, diced meat, potato salad, chicken salad, turkey salad, cooked seafood, vegetables, rice and pastas.
Add grated cheese, cottage cheese, or tofu to salads, vegetables rice, pastas, soups, casseroles, burritos, and toast.
If you don't want to eat meat, consider adding other sources of protein such as tofu, and cooked or canned beans (black and kidney) into casseroles, rice dishes, pasta, or salad.
Add tofu to soups and cheesecake.
Many quick and easy sauce and gravy mixes are available in the grocery stores. Extra powdered milk can be added to the cream-style sauces and gravies, or evaporated milk can be used in place of regular milk or water.
Limit high fiber, bulky foods, which are filling and supply few calories. Replace broth and vegetable soups with cream soups. Try nuts, granola bars, pudding pops, Pop Tarts, cheese and crackers, or chips and dip for a snack instead of carrot and celery sticks. Leave your salad until the end of your meal.
When you can’t eat well at a meal, for an entire day, or for several days, it may be helpful to have a variety of nutritional supplements to help you meet your daily needs. Nutritional supplements come in a variety of flavors and forms-beverages, soups, puddings, or bars. Most nutritional supplements provide calories, protein, fat and the vitamins and minerals you normally obtain from a wide variety of foods. You can obtain nutritional supplements in your local grocery stores.
BOOSTING CALORIES AND PROTEIN
If you are having trouble eating enough to maintain your weight, try adding the following high fat foods to your diet to increase your calorie intake.
Fats and oils such as butter, margarine, mayonnaise, and gravies, have a large number of calories in only a small serving. Add these to other foods to improve calorie intake. For example, use extra margarine on bread, extra mayonnaise in tuna salad, gravies on meats, sour cream on potatoes, cream sauce on vegetables.
Butter your toast when it is hot-more butter is used when it melts into it.
Use mayonnaise in place of salad dressing. Mayonnaise has more calories.
Boost calories with high carbohydrate foods such as sugar, jam, honey, syrup, and marmalade. These are easy to keep on hand and require little or no preparation and all add calories.
Keep snack foods available such as cookies, cakes, pies, nuts, candy and dried fruit.
Drink liquids with extra calories such as milkshakes, eggnogs, high protein drinks instead of water, tea, diet soda, and coffee.
Try cooking with heavy cream instead of milk.
Add whipped cream or frosting to desserts.
Enjoy half-and-half on your breakfast cereal.
Use sour cream as a dip for vegetables. Try sour cream on French fries.
Add avocado slices or guacamole to sandwiches or salads.
Top breads, pancakes, and waffles with extra margarine, jams, cream cheese, dried fruits, nuts, and syrups.
Prepare vegetables au gratin, buttered, or creamed.
Stuff fruits and vegetables with cottage cheese or ricotta cheese.
Blend or whip ice cream or cream with fruit canned in syrup.
Sweeten fruit with sugar or honey.
Substitute cream for milk in any recipe.
Coffee creamer powders add calories without adding volume. These can be added to hot cocoa, milkshakes, hot cereals, gravy and soups for additional calories.
Serve frosting on a graham cracker
Try to eat a good breakfast. Your appetite is likely to be best in the morning
Keep easy to prepare foods on hand, such as frozen dinners, canned foods and eggs.
Try small frequent meals. Six or more small meals may be easier to tolerate than three large meals. Build up gradually, adding a new food each day.
Prepare meals ahead. Fix many small portions of your favorite foods high in protein and calories and store them in the refrigerator or freezer, ready to serve.
Protein foods provide amino acids for your body to build, maintain, and repair cells and muscle tissue, heal wounds, and support the immune system. The best protein sources are in the milk group (includes yogurt and cheese) and the meat group (includes eggs, nuts and beans). The following are suggestions to further increase your protein and calorie intake.
Top your waffle or pancakes with a generous scoop of ice cream.
Prepare canned soups with milk instead of water.
Add chopped meat, cheese, or ham to scrambled eggs, omelets, salads, and soups.
Serve peanut butter with an apple, celery, banana, pear, vanilla wafers or graham crackers.
Spread peanut butter on crackers, bread, French toast, and waffles
Stir powdered milk into soups, sauces, egg dishes, and casseroles.
Breaded and fried meats, fish or poultry contain more calories than broiled or roasted meats.
Add nonfat dry milk to foods for added calories and protein, such as mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, meatballs, cream soups, cream sauces, gravies, puddings, custards, milkshakes, scrambled eggs, meatloaf, casseroles, hot and cold cereals, and whole milk (see fortified milk recipe).
Instant cocoa packets, canned soups and pudding mixes can be made with whole milk, half and half or evaporated milk instead of water.
Finely chopped hard-cooked egg white can very effectively be blended into a sauce or gravy without being noticed. Do not eat raw eggs.
Serve deviled eggs.
Add hard boiled eggs or egg substitute to tuna, diced meat, potato salad, chicken salad, turkey salad, cooked seafood, vegetables, rice and pastas.
Add grated cheese, cottage cheese, or tofu to salads, vegetables rice, pastas, soups, casseroles, burritos, and toast.
If you don't want to eat meat, consider adding other sources of protein such as tofu, and cooked or canned beans (black and kidney) into casseroles, rice dishes, pasta, or salad.
Add tofu to soups and cheesecake.
Many quick and easy sauce and gravy mixes are available in the grocery stores. Extra powdered milk can be added to the cream-style sauces and gravies, or evaporated milk can be used in place of regular milk or water.
Limit high fiber, bulky foods, which are filling and supply few calories. Replace broth and vegetable soups with cream soups. Try nuts, granola bars, pudding pops, Pop Tarts, cheese and crackers, or chips and dip for a snack instead of carrot and celery sticks. Leave your salad until the end of your meal.
When you can’t eat well at a meal, for an entire day, or for several days, it may be helpful to have a variety of nutritional supplements to help you meet your daily needs. Nutritional supplements come in a variety of flavors and forms-beverages, soups, puddings, or bars. Most nutritional supplements provide calories, protein, fat and the vitamins and minerals you normally obtain from a wide variety of foods. You can obtain nutritional supplements in your local grocery stores.
